Ornamented canvas shoe.



L. ISAAC R. GROSS. ORNAMENTED CANVAS SHOE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 191s.l

1,294,667.. Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

A i t ORNAMENTED CANVAS SHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

Application iled .Tune 7, 1918. Serial No. 238,627;

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS ISAAC and RAPHAEL GRoss, citizens of the United States, and residents of borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamented Canvas Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means of ornamentation for canvas shoes, and our improvement is directed particularly to the production of embroidery tabs, constituting designs of suitable character, worked upon canvas mounts, and applied as by stitching, directly upon the shoe vamp, to form an integral part thereof.

The purpose of our invention is to enable canvas shoes to be ornamented with a facing of embroidery in an economical and effective manner, without the necessity of working the embroidery design into the material of the vamp, while at the same time securing all the effect of so doing. It consists therefore in producing an embroidered design, as by machine work, upon a mount of canvas, and then in stitching the embroidered article upon the canvas vamp.

It is of importance that the embroidered mount or article should be of canvas, in order that its texture may correspond with that of the vamp; because, in this way, when said mount is stitched upon the vamp, it will thus form an integral part thereof, and assume with the vamp the shape or contour which the latter is given, over the area of application, in the stretching of the vamp over a last for production of the shoe upl per. Furthermore, it will permit the vamp,

or upper forward portion thereof, near the instep, to yield freely with the working of the wearers foot.

Metal or other stiff buckles and the like, in their application to shoes, are usually secured to a tongue which projects upwardly from the vamp, to extend over the instep. If such stilf articles of ornamentation were secured upon the upper, forward portion of the shoe, the effect would be to interfere with the flexible adaptability of said shoe portion which would thus be less free to yield in consonance with the movement of the wearers foot, that is snugly incased by the canvas shoe.

The machine-produced embroidery device which is thus made a homogeneous part of the vamp, presents all the desired eects of embroidered ornamentation worked into the material of the vamp, but at a fraction ofthe expense of such operation.

Besides, embroidery stitches through the vamp would at the reverse side create protuberances, which, with a snugly fitting shoe, by projecting from the inner, Otherwise smooth surface of the canvas, would bear uncomfortably and injuriously upon the flesh.

But with our applied tabs or pieces of canvas, bearing the embroidery, which are simply sewn to. the canvas of the vamp, the stated ill effect is entirely avoided, while the embroidery effect is fully achieved.

In the drawing,

Figure l is a view of a piece of canvas comprising a vamp, having imposed thereon the embroidery mount.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a formed shoe and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out our invention we take a piece or strip of canvas, as a, which is of suitable size and shape to lie upon the front upper portion of a shoe vamp, and we embroider a design, as thereon, also binding the surrounding edge of said piece as at c. Said piece or strip a, which we term an embroidery mount, is then secured upon a canvas vamp. as d, see Fig. l, before the latter is shaped to the contour of a shoe upper, as shown in Fig. 2.

In Securing the mount a to the vamp we sew it thereon with stitches e, drawn over the binding c, so that said Stitches become embedded therein, and, being of the same color as the canvas, are thus invisible.

The vamp and mount, being 'of the same canvas material, besides corresponding in color, constitute a fabric characterized by homogeneity of texture, to thus accommodate itself uniformly to the variations of contour such as will occur in servicethrough the flexing of the wearers foot, and through the influences of moisture and dryn ness to which it will be subjected.

We claim In a shoe, the combination with a canvas vamp of a canvas mount bearing embroidery, said mount having its surrounding edge bound with embroidery, and said mount being Secured to said vamp by stitches embedded in said edge binding, whereby said city, county and State of New York this 3rd mount comprehends a like appearing, fleX- day of June A. D. 1918.

infr and Wearing part of said vamp indistiiguishable therefrom as to the eherzreter- OSS ,istie whereby the eiribroidery borne by said mount appears to have been Worked directly vWitnesses: on said Vamp. F. W. BAKKER,

Signed at borough of Manhattan in the A. B. BARKER.

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Washington, D. C. 

